From tobert at gmail.com Wed Jan 3 14:57:23 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:57:23 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] GR.pm: Lightning Talk submissions for
January 26 meeting
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701031457k1e7dbc3eyb2b60e6711924751@mail.gmail.com>
Submissions will be accepted for the January 26 meeting starting now
and ending on Monday the 15th. Of course, the topic is anything
directly related to perl. Have a favorite CPAN module? How about
a neat hack you found? How about some problem you solved with perl
that was neat-o?
If you don't know what a lightning talk is, here are some links:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html
http://www.justanotherperlhacker.org/lightning/
http://perl.plover.com/lightning-talks.html
Please submit your topic and a couple sentences about what you'd
cover. You don't even have to provide slides if you don't want/need
them. A talk can be anywhere from 1 minute (better be good ;) to
10 minutes. Please specify your intended length. I will hold you
to it. I only plan on having 45 minutes of talk though, since we're
also doing elections that day.
Send submissions to me or the list:
tobert at gmail.com
grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org
They will be chosen by me and a committee of my choosing ;) All
decisions are semi-final.
Did I mention elections are this month?
Thanks,
-Al Tobey
From dave at uvhosting.com Thu Jan 4 09:20:30 2007
From: dave at uvhosting.com (David Szostek)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:20:30 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Server Salesperson
Message-ID: <00bc01c73024$a296b490$6401a8c0@710M>
Hi,
I am expanding my dedicated hosting department and am looking for a
full-time technical savvy dedicated hosting salesperson. I specialize in
high availability setups so there are some complexities over normal hosting
sales.
If anyone is interested and thinks they would be qualified or know somebody
who may be, I am all ears. This is a tough area to find people with those
skills.
Go perl :)
David Szostek
UV Hosting
From tobert at gmail.com Sat Jan 20 19:05:41 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:05:41 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] January meeting
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701201905na1939f5l3e3fd748d8d69cd4@mail.gmail.com>
Hey everybody. I only have a couple confirmed volunteers for
lightning talks this Friday. For those of you who gave me
light-hearted offers "if nobody else wants to," now's the time to
commit.
I might ping a couple people outside GR.pm to see if they want to
educate us heathens on non-perl stuff. For instance, I could let
Hahnfeld talk about how great Python is and invite somebody else to
talk about Ruby. Perhaps Sean would like to talk about
Smalltalk/Strongtalk? Klein keeps talking about how great Haskel is
... perhaps I could talk about the relative beauty of the Unix shell
environment.
We also need ideas for February. I would really like to use a
different venue for a couple meetings this year, even if we need to
rent them. Please send your ideas to the list, or to myself if
you're bashful.
-Al
From tobert at gmail.com Tue Jan 23 14:08:08 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:08:08 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Perl Mongers THIS Friday
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701231408y5cd54cbbk89a36e4486caea20@mail.gmail.com>
The Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be meeting this Friday January 26
at 11:30am. The venue is the same as usual, the Priority Health
Conference Center @ 3111 Leonard St. NE Grand Rapids, MI.
We will be entertained by lightning talks and free pizza. We are
also holding elections for all offices and discussing the plans for
2007. Please RSVP if you'd like to have some pizza so I can buy
enough.
So far, the lightning talks scheduled are:
Chuck Dreyer on the Perl Debugger
Ed Eddington on an XMLHTTPRequest implementation
Al Tobey on handy shell tricks if I don't get more volunteers
We still need 2 or 3 more talks. You don't even have to make slides
or anything. You don't have to talk about perl either. The only
requirement is that you have a topic and email me before Thursday
evening so I can do the lineup.
http://grand-rapids.pm.org/
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3111+Leonard+St+NE,+Grand+Rapids,+MI+49525+(Priority%20Health%20Conference%20Center)&spn=0.016144,0.039312&hl=en
See you there!
-Al Tobey
From tobert at gmail.com Thu Jan 25 10:57:20 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:57:20 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Fwd: [yapc] YAPC::NA 2007 Call For
Participation
In-Reply-To: <7f7c2d5e0701250645s4cec7153qab83c252016beb5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7f7c2d5e0701250645s4cec7153qab83c252016beb5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701251057w49661d43h3d50324757e8dd6b@mail.gmail.com>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Fluhmann
Date: Jan 25, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: [yapc] YAPC::NA 2007 Call For Participation
To: yapc at pm.org
On behalf of The Perl Foundation, Houston.pm is officially announcing
the call for participation for Yet Another Perl Conference North
America 2007. The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, June 25 -
27 at the University of Houston.
Key Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline - April 9th
Schedule Announcement - April 30th
We are looking for presentations that current (or future) Perl
programmers would enjoy. Talks aimed at veteran Perl programmers,
beginners, or anyone in between are all welcome.
Presentation slots will be 20 (standard), 50, and 80 minutes. As
always, Lightning Talks will be presented on the last day of the
conference, but the call for these will be announced as we get closer
to the conference date.
At this time, we are accepting presentation abstracts via e-mail
(abstracts-na at yapc.org). Once the ACT-hosted site goes live, you
will be able to submit via the website (or e-mail if you'd like).
Please include a title, expected talk time, and any special
presentation requirements with your abstract. All rooms will have a
projector and a microphone.
Upon submission, you should receive a confirmation within a week. If
not, please resubmit. If you encounter any problems or have any
questions, please feel free to contact us at help-na at yapc.org.
Authors of accepted presentations will be contacted via email by April
25th.
See official posting at the YAPC::NA site.
_______________________________________________
yapc mailing list
yapc at pm.org
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc
From tobert at gmail.com Thu Jan 25 14:33:32 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:33:32 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] ROOM/BUILDING CHANGE for Grand Rapids Perl
Mongers
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701251433r2ba322d8sdea825a0c5342233@mail.gmail.com>
I messed up and assumed we had rooms booked all through 2007 for Perl
Mongers. We didn't. Now that I've done some booking, one of the
days I can't get is this month's meeting. There are a few more days
that we'll discuss at the meeting.
I don't have final confirmation, but the meeting is very likely going
to be in Computer Lab 3 of building 1239 on the Priority Health
Campus. Go in the front door and tell the receptionist you're there
for Perl Mongers.
>From the receptionist, go down the stairs or take the elevator down 1
floor. Turn left at the junction and go down until you see Computer
Lab 3. Look for signs, because if we change the room again, they'll
be the source of truth.
1239 East Beltline NE
Grand Rapids MI 49525
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1239+E+Beltline+NE+49525&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=addr
Call me at (616) 291-0806 if you need help finding the building/room
or whatever.
By the way, I'm only buying 3 large pizzas based on the current RSVP count.
-Al
From john at oleszkiewicz.net Sun Jan 28 06:50:03 2007
From: john at oleszkiewicz.net (John Oleszkiewicz)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:50:03 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Last meeting / next meetings
Message-ID: <45BCB81B.7000407@oleszkiewicz.net>
Hello all,
I just wanted to e-mail and say that Chase and I enjoyed the GRPM
meeting and we're looking forward to coming back. I think that the
lightning talk format was effective. All of the topics were interesting
and some topics were immediately useful to us Smiths guys (e.g. the Perl
debugger talk). I think the wide range of talks ensured everyone would
get something useful out of the meeting.
So - I would put in a vote for more lightning talks for future
meetings. I'd be particularly interested in talks about members'
favorite examples of perl "kung-fu". I write relatively unsophisticated
scripts - I sometimes think they look more like lazy C programs than
Perl. It would be neat to get an introduction to what people have done
in the past to solve a problem in a uniquely Perl way.
If anyone is interested, I could give a talk about an offbeat use of
Perl. One of my hobbies is genealogy, and the interoperability standard
for genealogical databases is (essentially) a flat text file. I use Perl
to automate some of the manipulations of my home genealogical database.
The talk probably wouldn't be worth more than 10 minutes, since the
stuff I'm doing is pretty simple. But I figured this would be an unusual
topic and worth bringing up.
-John
From andy at petdance.com Sun Jan 28 08:04:48 2007
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:04:48 -0600
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] Last meeting / next meetings
In-Reply-To: <45BCB81B.7000407@oleszkiewicz.net>
References: <45BCB81B.7000407@oleszkiewicz.net>
Message-ID: <0D4B6209-6C49-422A-AC12-1DD4D103E824@petdance.com>
> If anyone is interested, I could give a talk about an offbeat
> use of
> Perl. One of my hobbies is genealogy, and the interoperability
> standard
> for genealogical databases is (essentially) a flat text file. I use
> Perl
> to automate some of the manipulations of my home genealogical
> database.
> The talk probably wouldn't be worth more than 10 minutes, since the
> stuff I'm doing is pretty simple. But I figured this would be an
> unusual
> topic and worth bringing up.
I, too, am a GEDCOM guy, and I would come see your talk, if I wasn't
out in the wilds of NW Chicago.
xoa
--
Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
From tobert at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 14:11:46 2007
From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:11:46 -0500
Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-list] job posting
Message-ID: <5ac7acb10701301411r141053e3p92c822e8e29bdc8e@mail.gmail.com>
A gentleman at Liquid Web asked me to post this to the list. I checked it
out and it's legit.
-Al
Liquid Web Inc. is a rapidly expanding web hosting company which currently
operates two Data Centers in the Lansing area. Due to our rapid growth we
are
seeking a perl software developer for internal operations and special
projects.
Internal operations include such things as improving our data center
operations, billing, and support infrastructure.
Some perks and benefits are listed here:
http://liquidweb.com/jobs/
Specific job requirements and duties are listed here:
http://liquidweb.com/jobs/#004
Virtual tour of our recent Data center and where you would be working:
http://liquidweb.com/about/dc2.html
Any questions about the job or resumes can be sent to
dev.resumes at liquidweb.com
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